The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

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It happens with all of us. We all have both a good side and a bad side. Sometimes we are so angry that we keep on feeding our anger more with our thoughts and hence making the angry wolf win whereas at other times our kindness and love take over and the good wolf wins. If we are a little more conscious of our thoughts/actions then we can always make sure that our good wolf(good side) always wins.

“Always remember that ALL(no exceptions) OF US HAVE A GOOD WOLF INSIDE US. Just remember to feed it. ”

At sometimes our mind go in that position where we can’t think..if someone has done bad with us in the past the feeling of hatred devlop itself.Controlling is Good,feeding the brain with positive thought is good but how can we be saint or mahatma all the time,its human nature….

Manifestation of feelings is natural and so is the reaction. IMO, the basic truth and only possible attribute to the flesh is Karma – Karma driven by conscience. Buddha’s teachings (Curb your desires) are anti-natural.

It is really good one shwetha…
I’m feeling very happy after reading this section.
If every one on earth just understood this, the words evil, anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego… can be seen in only in Dictionaries and movies…. I’m really thankful to you forsharing this….

I heard this in a movie too..though for me it is all a matter of relatively perceiving it. Though one can’t undermine the power of positive emotions and actions not all negative emotions are “bad”…it is sometime necessary to be selfish…keeps danger at bay!

Hi Shwetha
Incidentally my blog name is same as yours , hence I end up sometimes on your blog, then landing in my owns nest.
Interestingly, I am also an entrepreneur like you, who left a cosy MNC job to try an international venture like you. So, we have quite a few things in common.
Anyway, coming back to your post on Feeding The Wolves : Now, what happens, if someone feeds the two wolves equally to keep the balanced human being in you. In a rather assymetrical world, there is value of greed ,anger, temptations, etc and there is a value for peace , love , kindness. I guess, one has to keep a good balance . But to find that thin line which supports war against evil and love against hatred is then the reflection of a ruler. Otherwise, we simply become followers where courage is subdued to the extent of cowardice , whenever challenges have to be made to fight the wrong around you. Both wolves equally fed, keep the evil away and keeps the love growing.

I browsed to an atheist website and pondered upon the question mentioned in that: the question is ===>

One of the more interesting ethical dilemmas is posed by the old story about how early Inuits behaved. When a tribe was in difficulty in bad weather and there was barely enough food to go around and someone old or sick was holding the tribe back, the sick/old person would walk off into a blizzard to certain death. This was portrayed in the 1960 movie Savage Innocents starring Anthony Quinn as Inuk and the person was an old grandmother. Her decision to sacrifice herself for the good of the tribe was accepted and no-one risked their life or the lives of the rest of the tribe to try and reverse her decision. A Christian would not have a solution to this problem – suicide is a sure way to lose one’s soul and would never be allowed. Only god can decide – or put another way, we must not decide for God. I would guess that in this situation, if the tribe were Christian, they would all perish.

The Savage InnocentsWould an atheist agree with the suicide solution? It would depend on the details. If the old person did it on her own, she would be a hero. But our inbuilt sense of morality says that you must not decide whether another person should live. It’s not God who decides – but it’s also not someone else who decides for me. Perhaps (in this case) they are not really holding everyone back. If I remember the film, no other person told the grandmother what she should do – they all loved her and did not want to lose her.

But Christians will tell you that our morality comes from God. Some will say that it comes from the 10 commandments but that list is way too short and incomplete to be of much value. Others will say it comes from knowing that God created us and so we have value. But we have value anyway – irrespective of the existence of any god. All Atheists I have ever met have a strong ethical sense – in fact there are many Christians who are a lot less moral – think abusive priests, abortion doctor killers and anti-gay hatemongers to name a few. I don’t have a strong answer as to where this ethical sense comes from – but I know it is unrelated to God. There are billions of atheists, agnostics, Hindus, Buddhists and others who have approx. the same set of moral values and they don’t attribute them to anything related to a god.

But if you have an ethical question and you would like an answer (e.g. abortion, capital punishment, violent political protests etc.), then how do you choose a solution? Sam Harris suggests we turn to Science and he may be right. But relying on ancient texts written in dead languages which need interpretation by people who believe they were inspired by a god who never actually speaks to us, will not work. As a minimum we need to use our ability to reason and apply logic.